Accomplishments: University Libraries
Brittani Sterling and Amy Tureen (both Libraries) published a chapter, "Crafting Contemporary Indigenous Studies Collections in the Age of Algorithms", in the new Association for College & Research Libraries book, Ethnic Studies in Academic and Research Libraries, from editors Raymond Pun, Melissa Cardenas-Dow, and Kenya S鈥
Tammi Kim (Libraries) is the co-author of an article, "Learning from Las Vegas: Adapting Workflows for Managing Born-Digital Design Records," published in the fall/winter 2021 issue of The American Archivist, the semi-annual journal of the Society of American Archivists. The article discusses 性视界传媒 Special Collections and Archives' approach to鈥
Christina Miskey and Andrea Wirth (both Libraries) presented at the annual Northeast Institutional Repository Day. Their presentation, "Developing a Comprehensive Faculty Bibliography to Facilitate Scholarly Communications Outreach," discussed the evolution of the 性视界传媒 Bibliography, including ideas for future development, and provided鈥
Cory Lampert (Libraries) is the co-author of a chapter, "Maximizing Good: An Inquiry-Based Approach to Minimal Description for Online Archives," in the recently published book, The Lighting the Way Handbook: Case Studies, Guidelines, and Emergent Futures for Archival Discovery and Delivery.
Aidy Weeks (Libraries) is the author of an article, "Proving the Proverbial Gadfly: Situating the Historical and Racial Context of Southern Medical Works by Mary Louise Marshall" in the November issues of the Journal of the Medical Library Association. The article critically re-examines three influential works written by鈥
Ruby Nugent, Stephanie Fell, Aidy Weeks, and Rebecca Orozco (Libraries) gave a presentation at the 50th anniversary of the REFORMA Conference VII, titled, 鈥淐hanging the Narrative: An interdisciplinary approach to recommending changes to the National Library of Medicine鈥檚 controlled vocabulary and development of search hedges to improve鈥
Afsha Bawany (Urban Affairs), Su Kim Chung, Sean Kennedy,Brittani Sterling, and Claytee White (all Libraries), and Jennifer Ream (Journalism and Media Studies), were honored by the Public Relations Society of America's Las Vegas Chapter with a 2021 Pinnacle Award in public service for the 鈥淲e Need to Talk鈥 educational series.鈥
Cory Lampert (Libraries) presented "Neon in Nevada: A Blueprint for Collaboration in Nevada" at the National Digital Stewardship Alliance Digital Preservation 2021 conference.
The project to document and digitally preserve neon signs in Nevada is a collaboration between 性视界传媒 and the University of Nevada, Reno libraries.
Darnelle Melvin (Libraries) will be a member of a panel, "Perspectives on Wikidata: a forum sponsored by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging Linked Data Advisory Committee" on Nov. 12. The forum will showcase different perspectives on Wikidata in libraries, with the goal of discussing the perceived benefits or disadvantages of working with鈥
Halle Burns, Christina Miskey, and Rebecca Orozco (all Libraries) led a round table discussion at the Digital Library Federation's annual Forum conference. This discussion, titled "Failure is an Option: Creative, Inclusive, and Accessible Data Workshops" explored ways that data instructors are creating new methods for approaching today's learners鈥
Christina Miskey (Libraries) was invited to give a presentation at the recent Digital Commons North American Conference. The presentation, "From Alerts to Automation: Using the Scopus Harvesting Tool to Improve Faculty Bibliography Workflows," focused on her work streamlining department workflows around the 性视界传媒 Bibliography and 性视界传媒's鈥
Aidy Weeks and Stephanie Fell (Libraries) gave an invited presentation titled, 鈥淗ispanic/Latinx Inclusive Terminologies Project鈥 as representatives of the Medical Subject Headings Project Team before the National Institutes of Health Interest Group for Adding Ethnic Minorities to MeSH. Medical Subject Headings is the controlled鈥